How Microscale Particle Accelerators Could Transform Our World
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This particle accelerator is so
This particle accelerator is so small it fits on a microchip, here’s how.
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Accelerating particles may no longer be the domain of massive, expensive instruments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In fact, particle accelerators of the future might look very different.
And much, much smaller—like, built on a microchip small—if this functioning prototype of a miniature particle accelerator is any indication.
And much, much smaller. Like, built on a microchip small.
A team out of Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is the very first to have produced a functioning prototype of a miniature particle accelerator on a silicon chip. This groundbreaking miniature particle accelerator is a mere 30 micrometers long, which is about the width of a single hair on your head.
But how could an accelerator get so small, and how could it possibly work?
The team of researchers who designed the micro accelerator compares the sizing down of particle accelerators to the changes that computers have gone through. Once able to fill an entire room, you can now hold a computer in the palm of your hand.
Find out how the team managed to get a particle accelerator so small; what this could mean for the future of accelerator technology; and how advances like this are helping us probe the fundamentals of our universe in this Elements.
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Why are particle accelerators so large?
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"Particle accelerators are tools that allow us probe both the fundamental components of nature and the evolution and origin of all matter in the visible (and maybe even the invisible?) universe. The more powerful the accelerator, the further we can see into the infinitely small and the infinitely large."
New Particle Accelerator Fits on a Silicon Chip
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
"Particle accelerators are expensive, require scientists to travel from locations all over the world and cannot accommodate all the researchers who submit requests to book time. To make these devices more accessible, a team at Stanford University developed a laser-driven particle accelerator that fits on a tiny silicon chip—and that could eventually be scaled up to produce a beam with as much energy as SLAC’s."
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator
http://nautil.us/issue/14/mutation/10...
"Physicists use particle accelerators to answer questions of fundamental physics—how our universe was created, why objects have mass, and so on...But if you think these machines have no use outside of research, you’re in for a surprise."
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Accelerating particles may no longer be the domain of massive, expensive instruments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In fact, particle accelerators of the future might look very different.
And much, much smaller—like, built on a microchip small—if this functioning prototype of a miniature particle accelerator is any indication.
And much, much smaller. Like, built on a microchip small.
A team out of Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is the very first to have produced a functioning prototype of a miniature particle accelerator on a silicon chip. This groundbreaking miniature particle accelerator is a mere 30 micrometers long, which is about the width of a single hair on your head.
But how could an accelerator get so small, and how could it possibly work?
The team of researchers who designed the micro accelerator compares the sizing down of particle accelerators to the changes that computers have gone through. Once able to fill an entire room, you can now hold a computer in the palm of your hand.
Find out how the team managed to get a particle accelerator so small; what this could mean for the future of accelerator technology; and how advances like this are helping us probe the fundamentals of our universe in this Elements.
#physics #particleaccelerator #microchip #stanford #seeker #elements #science
Read More:
Why are particle accelerators so large?
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/arti...
"Particle accelerators are tools that allow us probe both the fundamental components of nature and the evolution and origin of all matter in the visible (and maybe even the invisible?) universe. The more powerful the accelerator, the further we can see into the infinitely small and the infinitely large."
New Particle Accelerator Fits on a Silicon Chip
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
"Particle accelerators are expensive, require scientists to travel from locations all over the world and cannot accommodate all the researchers who submit requests to book time. To make these devices more accessible, a team at Stanford University developed a laser-driven particle accelerator that fits on a tiny silicon chip—and that could eventually be scaled up to produce a beam with as much energy as SLAC’s."
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without A Particle Accelerator
http://nautil.us/issue/14/mutation/10...
"Physicists use particle accelerators to answer questions of fundamental physics—how our universe was created, why objects have mass, and so on...But if you think these machines have no use outside of research, you’re in for a surprise."
____________________
Elements is more than just a science show. It’s your science-loving best friend, tasked with keeping you updated and interested on all the compelling, innovative and groundbreaking science happening all around us. Join our passionate hosts as they help break down and present fascinating science, from quarks to quantum theory and beyond.
Seeker empowers the curious to understand the science shaping our world. We tell award-winning stories about the natural forces and groundbreaking innovations that impact our lives, our planet, and our universe.
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